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Within seconds a new sound entered the cabin. Beep-beep-beep-beep. They were thin squeaks, spaced a full half-second apart, that rose to inaudibility in pitch in the fraction of a second they lasted. The co-pilot snatched a hand phone from the wall above his head and held it to his lips. "Flight two-twenty calling," he said crisply. "Something's got a radar on us. We saw it.
"Why, I thought that you had shaken the dust of the city from your feet forever, and turned country squire. Sit down! What will you have?" "First of all, am I disturbing you?" Spencer shook his head. "I've no Press work to-night," he answered. "I've a clear hour to give you at any rate. When did you come?" "Two-twenty from Charing Cross," Duncombe answered.
Frank smiled. "I suppose it is all right," said the manager dubiously; "but, anyway, I'll see him to-morrow. As a precautionary measure we might get in touch with your uncle, though I know he'll raise Cain if we bother him about his account." "He will certainly raise Cain if you get in touch with him to-day," smiled Frank, "for he is due to leave by the two-twenty this afternoon for Paris."
We took the two-twenty train from Charing Cross on the afternoon of the twenty-first. The servants had been left in charge of the rectory. We would return in a fortnight, so we told them.
A quarter to two o'clock he came on deck and made a final inspection, giving his last instructions. Then we had a little lunch. "Hobson was just as cool as a cucumber. About two-twenty I took the men who were not going on the trip into the launch and started for the Texas, which was the nearest ship, but had to go back for one of the assistant engineers, whom Hobson finally compelled to leave.
You ought to hear what Wagner, the captain of the college track team, had to say about you." "What did he say?" inquired Will eagerly. "He said you had it in you to make one of the best runners in college, and he's going to keep an eye on you for the team too." "Did he say that?" "That's what he did." "The two-twenty hasn't been run yet. I believe I'll go in for that." "That's the way to talk."
My friend, I must say, telegraphs in a most mysterious manner, but he is evidently very anxious that we should accede to his request. Our appearance here at this time of night I admit is most unjustifiable, but what were we to do? It is absolutely necessary for my wife to catch the two-twenty from Charing Cross to-morrow. I hope that my friend will some day appreciate my devotion.
The very sound of the peaceful little name gave her courage. Placid Pond! Placid Pond! Could any place be more indicative of rest? Then she bethought her of the Wicked Compact, and felt almost impelled to hand back the ticket Placid Pond could not be the right place to be bad in! But it was too late! "Two-twenty," the ticket man said, monotonously, and she fumbled in her lean, little purse.
It was exactly nine forty-five in the evening, about three weeks later, when the two-twenty from London steamed into the Gare du Nord. Julien, from his place among the little crowd wedged in behind the gates, gazed with blank amazement at the girl who, among the first to leave the train, was presenting her ticket to the collector. At that moment she recognized him.
It was not that he dreamed ever of securing any of the stuff; the spell endured only while they must stand there, remote, splendid, inaccessible. Then we strolled down the quiet street to a road that went close to the railway. And there, with beating hearts, we beheld the two-twenty Eastern freight rattle superbly by us.
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